4 .TH NMH %manext7% "%nmhdate%" MH.6.8 [%nmhversion%]
6 mmh \- Introduction to the Modern MH message system
9 is a powerful message handling system, based on
11 which in turn bases on MH, the Rand Corporation's Message Handler.
14 being a single comprehensive program,
16 consists of a collection
17 of fairly simple single-purpose programs to send, retrieve, organize,
18 and manipulate messages.
20 Unlike most other mail clients,
22 is not a closed system which
23 must be explicitly run, then exited when you wish to return to the shell.
24 Instead, you may freely intersperse
26 commands with other shell commands,
27 allowing you to read and answer your mail while you
28 search for a file or run programs as needed
29 to find the answer to someone's question before answering their mail.
31 The rest of this manual entry is a quick tutorial which will teach you
34 You should read the manual entries for the
35 individual programs for complete documentation.
43 This is best done in one of the files:
49 in your home directory. (Check the
50 manual entry for the shell you use, in case you don't know how to
51 do this.) Then run the
53 command. If you've never used
55 before, it will create the necessary default files and directories after
56 asking you if you wish it to do so.
59 moves mail from your system maildrop into your
61 `+inbox' folder, converting it to the MH format (one file per message).
62 It prints one line for each message it
63 processes, containing the date, from and subject fields.
64 It leaves the first message it processes as your current message.
67 each time you wish to incorporate new mail into your
72 prints a list of the messages in your current folder.
80 specific messages from the current folder.
83 current message, or a specific message, which may be specified by its
84 number, which you pass as an argument to
89 display, respectively, the message numerically after or before
90 the current message. In all cases, the message displayed becomes the
91 current message. If there is no current message,
94 called with an argument, or
96 may be used to advance to the
100 (remove message) deletes the current message. It may be called
101 with message numbers passed as arguments, to delete specific messages.
104 is used to respond to the current message (by default).
105 It places you in the editor with a prototype response form.
106 After completing your response, type
117 allows you to compose a fresh message by putting you in the editor
118 on a prototype message form, and then lets you send it.
122 commands may be run with the single argument:
124 which causes them to print a list of the arguments they may be invoked
127 Commands which take a message number as an argument
131 \&...) also take one of the letters: `f',
132 `p', `c', `n', or `l' to indicate
133 (respectively) the first, previous, current, next, or last message in
134 the current folder (assuming they are defined).
136 Commands which take a range of message numbers
140 \&...) also take any of the abbreviations:
143 .IP \fI<num1>\fR\-\fI<num2>\fR 15
144 Indicates all messages in the range <num1> to <num2>, inclusive.
145 The range must be nonempty.
146 .IP \fI<num>\fR:+\fIN\fR 15
147 .IP \fI<num>\fR:\-\fIN\fR 15
150 messages beginning with (or ending with) message
153 may be any of the pre-defined symbols:
164 The first, previous, next or last
165 messages, if they exist.
168 There are many other possibilities such as creating multiple folders
169 for different topics, and automatically refiling messages according to
170 subject, source, destination, or content. These are beyond the scope
171 of this manual entry.
173 Following is a list of all the
187 The following man pages describe file formats and concepts:
201 .ta \w'%etcdir%/FileName 'u
202 ^%bindir%~^contains \fImmh\fR commands
203 ^%etcdir%~^contains \fImmh\fR format files
204 ^%libdir%~^contains \fImmh\fR library commands
205 ^$HOME/.mmh~^The user's mmh directory
206 ^$HOME/.mmh/profile~^The user's profile
207 ^$HOME/.mmh/context~^The user's context
208 ^$HOME/Mail~^Default location of the user's mail storage
211 .SH "PROFILE COMPONENTS"
216 ^Path:~^Location of the user's mail storage
221 is an experimental version of
223 the New Mail Handler.
224 Its name ``mmh'' stands for ``meillo's mail handler''.
227 If you encounter problems with an
229 program, please report them.
230 When doing this, include the version information, which you can obtain
231 by invoking the program with the
235 Send bug reports, comments, and suggestions to
238 .IR "markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>" .